This play was basically a car wreck where the outcome unfairly determines the fault or intent. Let's say you're driving down the road, and the car in front of you slams on its brakes. You have to instantly swerve left or right. You choose right. The braking car also swerves right, because the car in front of it is actually the first one to slam on its brakes. You rear end the car you were attempting to avoid. You get a ticket for failure to control speed, because you hit someone, even though you did nothing wrong. If you'd veered left, and he'd veered right, nothing happens, the cops aren't called, and everyone's a little shaken but fine. But in the split second you had to choose, you chose wrong. So did he. Everything happened so fast, they were independent decisions. You're Marisnick, the car in front of you is Lucroy, and the car in front of both of you that made everyone swerve is the throw to the plate.
I think this home plate call is a bit overblown. Sucks that Lucroy got injured but this is nature of sports. People might get hurt at anytime. Don't think there was any intent to hurt by Marsinick. It was a bang bang play and decisions had to be made in a split second. Unfortunately, it turned out to be ugly play for both teams. Get well Lucroy and let's move on.
Yeah, no. I was at the game, and Jake clearly went inside when he could have slid to the outside if someone *cough* Bregman *cough* was directing him that way.
I feel bad for Lucroy's nose so let's trade for him. It'll recover by July 31st. Churros catches Verlander. Lucroy catches Cole. They flip a coin for the rest of the guys. Crazy that some "writers" think Jake would do that intentionally.
Funny part is that Berkman was trying to teach baserunning on air to the kids all weekend, it almost got annoying, and yet we can only hope the Astros were listening because they appear to have no clue out there.
Reaction from Jake immediately will likely get him out of suspension. A few minutes after the play, you could see he was not himself. Most players would not have done what Jake did, wait and stay there until Lucroy gets up.
At least there are quite a bit of responses calling Molina out. He looks like a guy who didn’t see the play on video, but just saw a pic and made a judgement. Molina looks like a idiot.
I'm sure it's been mentioned, haven't read the thread, but Jake was going 29+ft/sec, which is kinda fast.
#2 in the AL in team ERA #1 in batting average against #2 in strike outs #1 in WHIP #2 in OPS Of course they could use another starter and reliever (who couldn't), but over the course of the season, this game was an anomaly.
Saw a view right down the third base line Dont know why we don't have high quality Mlb cameras in every dang corner of MMP after last years ALCS home run fiasco.
Generally, the guy on deck is not going to tell you which way to slide, it's either slide or not slide (just by the angle, you are inline with the runner coming down the line). Also, if you (as Berkman) can determine the direction that Lucroy was going to take, you have more insight than all of us. I agree he should have stayed outside but at those speeds it is difficult to say... Of course, if the throw was better there would be no issue.
